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Borovoi, L., Schmidtke, Kelly and Vlaev, Ivo (2022) The effects of feedback valance and progress monitoring on goal striving. Current Psychology, 41 . pp. 4574-4591. doi:10.1007/s12144-020-00925-8 ISSN 1046-1310.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-020-00925-8
Abstract
The current paper explores how people’s goal strivings are influenced by feedback (positively valenced vs. negatively valenced), progress monitoring (remaining vs. accumulated) and goal specificity (vague vs. specific). Two laboratory-based experiments were performed. Experiment 1 reveals that, after receiving positively valenced feedback, participants who focus on accumulated progress show larger boosts in persistence than participants who focus on remaining progress. In contrast, after receiving negatively valenced feedback, participants who focus on remaining progress show larger boosts in persistence than participants who focus on accumulated progress. Experiment 2 extends the scope of the paper from understanding the effects of progress monitoring on goal striving to the effects goal specificity on goal striving. Experiment 2 shows that after receiving negatively valenced feedback, participants asked to consider specific goals (and so likely focus on remaining progress) show more persistence than participants asked to consider vague goals (and so likely focus on accumulated progress). These findings have important implications for motivation theory and applied practice.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Motivation (Psychology) , Goal (Psychology), Feedback (Psychology), Behavior therapy | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Current Psychology | ||||||||
Publisher: | Springer New York LLC | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1046-1310 | ||||||||
Official Date: | July 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 41 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 4574-4591 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s12144-020-00925-8 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 July 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 19 August 2020 | ||||||||
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